From: Matt Evans <matt@ozlabs•org>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba•org>, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org
Subject: [PATCH] perf_event: Fix for power_pmu_disable()
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2010 13:36:32 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C32A4C0.3000600@ozlabs.org> (raw)
When power_pmu_disable() removes the given event from a particular index into
cpuhw->event[], it shuffles down higher event[] entries. But, this array is
paired with cpuhw->events[] and cpuhw->flags[] so should shuffle them
similarly.
If these arrays get out of sync, code such as power_check_constraints() will
fail. This caused a bug where events were temporarily disabled and then failed
to be re-enabled; subsequent code tried to write_pmc() with its (disabled) idx
of 0, causing a message "oops trying to write PMC0". This triggers this bug on
POWER7, running a miss-heavy test:
perf record -e L1-dcache-load-misses -e L1-dcache-store-misses ./misstest
Signed-off-by: Matt Evans <matt@ozlabs•org>
---
arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_event.c | 5 ++++-
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_event.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_event.c
index 08460a2..3766398 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -838,8 +838,11 @@ static void power_pmu_disable(struct perf_event *event)
cpuhw = &__get_cpu_var(cpu_hw_events);
for (i = 0; i < cpuhw->n_events; ++i) {
if (event == cpuhw->event[i]) {
- while (++i < cpuhw->n_events)
+ while (++i < cpuhw->n_events) {
cpuhw->event[i-1] = cpuhw->event[i];
+ cpuhw->events[i-1] = cpuhw->events[i];
+ cpuhw->flags[i-1] = cpuhw->flags[i];
+ }
--cpuhw->n_events;
ppmu->disable_pmc(event->hw.idx - 1, cpuhw->mmcr);
if (event->hw.idx) {
--
1.6.3.3
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